The e-learning resource can be integrated into the higher education social work curriculum either as directed or self directed study.

If you are using this resource in Northern Ireland the UNOCINI form is used instead of the Common Assessment Framework (CAF) but practitioners will still find the resources useful as an aid for expanding their knowledge about the impact of substance abuse within families.

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All material in these resources, including text, graphics, photographs, video and audio is copyright of the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE), unless otherwise stated. Use of these resources, and import of the resources into learning management systems for educational purposes, is freely permitted, but commercial use of this learning resource is not authorised unless permission is first obtained from SCIE.

Terms of useOpen

This e-learning resource is targeted at children’s social care workers to help them work more confidently with families where parents are misusing drugs.

The e-learning resource can be integrated into the higher education social work curriculum either as directed or self directed study.

If you are using this resource in Northern Ireland the UNOCINI form is used instead of the Common Assessment Framework (CAF) but practitioners will still find the resources useful as an aid for expanding their knowledge about the impact of substance abuse within families.

About the authorsOpen

Adfam

Adfam is the national umbrella organisation working to improve the quality of life for families affected by drug and alcohol use. They do this by working with a network of organisations, practitioners and individuals who come into contact with the families, friends and carers affected by someone else’s drug or alcohol use. Adfam provides direct support to families and practitioners through publications, training, consultancy, prison visitors’ centres and signposting to local services, and works extensively with professionals and Government to improve and expand the support available to families. For more information about Adfam and their services please visit www.adfam.org.uk.

Dr Di Hart – Principal Officer, National Children's Bureau

Di Hart worked for many years as a childcare social worker and manager before taking up a practice development post at the National Children's Bureau. She has a particular interest in children in secure settings. Recent work has included the development of a care-planning model for looked after children who go into custody and a review of the use of physical restraint in secure children's homes. Di also continues to be committed to supporting practitioners within children’s social care services working in safeguarding or looked after services. She has undertaken a project aiming to improve outcomes for the children of drug-misusing parents and is co-author of Adult Problems, Children's Needs: Assessing the Impact of Parental Drug Use (NCB 2006).

4. Adfam and The Children’s Society’s for allowing us to use extracts from their videos 'Putting it into Words’ and 'Ask me about me’

Technical developmentOpen

Programming and graphic design by Cimex Ltd.

Images and audioOpen

The case studies in this resource use the voices and images of actors. This approach has been adopted to protect the identities of the service users and carers whose accounts have been drawn upon or the accounts have been based on situations indicative of the events or issues being covered.

Video contentOpen

These e-learning resources use videos extracts by kind permission from two sources.

'Putting it into Words’ Adfam

SCIE would like to thank Adfam for the use of their 'Putting it into Words’ video footage, which shows parents and family members discussing how a loved one’s drug use affected them. The full video can be viewed at www.adfam.org.uk.

'Ask me about me’ The Children’s Society’s

SCIE would like to thank The Children’s Society’s Stars National Initiative for kindly giving SCIE permission to use footage from their DVD resource 'Ask me about me’ which gives an insight into children and young people’s experiences of parental substance misuse. For details of how to obtain copies of the DVD, other resources or further information please visit: www.starsnationalinitiative.org.uk.

SCORM Compliant versionOpen

Our courses are fully SCORM compliant. That means they can be downloaded into a Learning Management System (LMS) or Virtual Learning Environment (VLE), such as WebCT, Blackboard or Moodle, and accessed locally.

Please note that this resource was not designed to export any scores or track progress throughout the resource. Therefore, this resource can be freely accessed by users, but there will be no tracking or grading functionality.

To download the SCORM compliant versions of these resources, please see the downloads section on a course module page.

AccessibilityOpen

This e-learning resource has been designed to be accessible to the widest audience possible and reviewed for compliance to accessibility standards by the Digital Media Access Group at the University of Dundee.
This page lists some of the features used to make the resources easier to use. If you are experiencing problems using the resources, or have any questions and comments about their accessibility, please let us know.

Using the resources without a mouse

All materials have been designed to be accessible using the keyboard. Use the Tab key to access navigational elements such as buttons and interactive diagrams.
Pop-up windows with scroll bars can be accessed with the tab key, with the scroll-bar being operable via the up and down arrow keys.

Changing the appearance of the resources

If you need to adjust the way the resources appear, a Text Only version has been provided for each resource, allowing you to make changes to the resource's appearance through your browser.
For example, you can use your browser to make the text larger, or change the font or colour of the text to suit your personal preferences.
For more help on how to do this, visit the BBC's My Web My Way website

Accessing the resources with a screen reader

All resources have a narration of the main text. However if you use a screen reader, we recommend using the Text Only version for each resource. These provide broadly the same information and experience as the Flash version, but currently the nature of some features of the Flash resources mean that these features do not work as required in a screen reader

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Last updated: October 2011

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